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conservation

Natural Instincts

Ranjit Lal

Romancing the wild with a social conscience

Natural Instincts

The greening of Indira Gandhi

Senaka Senanayake: Life Is Beautiful

Often criticised as being purely aesthetic, Senaka Senanayake’s positive paintings are by no means emotionally inert

Ratish Nanda: Rising from the Ruins

A healer of ruins, he has steered the discourse on conservation away from the colonial model of keeping sites fenced in

Man of the Wild

Conservationist Vivek Menon on charismatic mammals, environmental awareness and the urgent need for land securement

Now, Who’s Crouching?

Open magazine does its turn to stall an eco-tourism scam in Rajasthan

Crouching Tourists, Hidden Tiger

Behind the face-off between the wildlife tourism lobby and the Ministry of Environment and Forests lies a network of hidden interests that exercises monopoly power and prospers on hypocrisy and corruption. More than stricter regulations, it’s time for transparency

Dispatched to Die

The latest death of a translocated tiger reiterates how Sariska continues to stand for everything that could have gone wrong with conservation in India.

Killing Them with Kindness

Animal welfare is not conservation. That is why our emotional meddling, however well intentioned, poses a menace to wildlife

Relocation Rumpus

Barring a few exceptions, the mandate and money meant to free the country’s finest tiger forests of human settlements is going waste in the absence of practical, transparent and sensitive groundwork.

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